A FAST LIFE ON THE MODERN HIGHWAY; BEING A GLANCE INTO THE RAILROAD WORLD FROM A NEW POINT OF VIEW. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1874. 12mo, pp. [1-7] 8-9 [10-11] 12-14 [15] 16 [17] 18-220, 33 illustrations, some full page, nineteenth-century three-quarter black leather and marbled boards. First edition. A bind-up of three works of nineteenth-century American and British humor: A first edition of a FAST LIFE (1874), Wright (II) 2436, a first edition of MARK TWAIN'S (BURLESQUE) AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FIRST ROMANCE, New York: Sheldon & Company, 1871, BAL 3326 (noted state 2 with Ball, Black & Co. ad on page [2]), and a later printing of the New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1869 edition of THE TIN TRUMPET; OR, HEADS AND TAILS FOR THE WISE AND WAGGISH, an anonymous work by Horace Smith (1779-1849), a popular English writer. Twain's work has its original self wrappers, the two others lack their original covers. The bind-up's leather is worn at spine ends and corners, but sound. A FAST LIFE is very scarce. (#162785).
Price: $250.00
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